Archive for March, 2005

An Easter Message for All Ages

Sunday, March 27th, 2005

You know how on your street there are people who belong to many different
religions? Well, maybe you don’t know that. It’s not like people paint their houses
different colors depending on their religion, so Catholics live in yellow houses and
Unitarian Universalists live in purple ones.
But unless there’s something unusual about your street, the people who live [...]

Then What Happened Was

Sunday, March 20th, 2005

I have served as minister here for just over thirty years. As on my twentieth and twenty fifth
anniversaries, the church’s Ministerial Relations Committee [Ann Ross, Bill Jacques, and
Jennifer Barron] wanted to take note of the occasion with a present and an event. The present is a trip that my wife Carol and I will take [...]

Better than Buying the Pews

Sunday, March 6th, 2005

Not that anyone asked, but my favorite radio show is “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell
Me.” Not long ago the panelists were asked multiple-choice questions about a television
evangelist who had just died. One required that they guess which of three fund-raising
tactics the man had employed on his show. The correct answer was, when money was
not coming in [...]